Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Winter is coming

It has been a eventful fall ! 

We have had many ups:

  • Glory received the Junior Naturalists award for her nature journal through the wetlands institute!  
  • She got 4 out of 5 stars for speed on her touch typing practice yesterday!  

  • We are cultivating a new love of audio books and keep running out of the allotted amount of books on hoopladigital. (she loves to listen to boxcar children as she draws, uses playdoh, or plays with legos.)  
  • We successfully bottle fed/fostered and adopted out 8 kittens! (a few we get to visit regularly)  
     

  • We enjoyed an amazing thanksgiving with friends and spent black Friday hiking in an amazing state park we had never been to before. 
  • Glory is rocking Yoga!  Click here ---> Yoga master <3
  • We got a hamster!  


  • Glory completed the next life of fred math book in the series; 'cats'!   
  • Daddy won a guitar in a sales contest at work!  
  • We have made many new friends and have reconnected with one of our homeschool co-ops (our original tribe) where we are moving closer to again!
  • We are moving again !!!
we have had some downs:

  • Glory was diagnosed with Tourettes.  She currently has some very pronounced facial tics and throat clearing/screetching vocal tics. She enjoyed the book 'I can't stop! A story about tourettes' and although this is not easy she continues to amaze us with her awesomeness <3
  • Our foster cat Jackie had to be put to sleep  

  • We remember what autism is like when fall rolls back around. (noise sensitivity is up, anxiety is up, mood swings are up)
  • We are moving again !!!    

Friday, October 13, 2017

Busy Year Ahead!

It's been a while since I've updated the blog because we have been so busy!  A sample week of ours this fall =

Monday - Forest school
Tuesday - Girl scouts
Wednesday - Wetlands institute
Thursday - 4H
Friday - Tinkergarten
Saturday - Dance

Not to mention library activities such as Minecraft club, Pokémon Club, ASL, Heart of surfing, Field of dreams, 6 flags fright fest, and fostering bottlefed kittens.   The curriculum Glory is currently using is Life of fred for math, Story of the world for history, Exploring nature with children, 4-H Passport geography, Wetlands NEHST.  And as many books as we will let her check out from the library at once ... she returned about 20 this morning  lol.

Friday, September 1, 2017

Our Summer of 2017


Our summer has been Epic!!  Just a few huge things are
1. We moved !! 2. We had a dance recital! 3. We go surfing !!
4. We foster kittens and a bird and live with dogs! 5. We joined a new local forest school! 
































Saturday, May 6, 2017

History Lesson: Family Tree

Had to jump on here and post this video of Glory interviewing her Paw Paw for her history assignment this week.  Family Tree Interview : Paw Paw

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Spring/Summer break

We are taking a break from the internet for spring and summer  :) will be back to update all we have been up to in the fall 

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Some fun this last week of March


 Fairy Garden's progress

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Magic show !
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Kayaking!!
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Volunteering for Mamagonna Rescue
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Playdates !
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 Lots of reading
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Twisters with POAC (parents of autistic children)

Glory's Words (in order of when spoken and constantly used)

Glory's Words (in order of when spoken and constantly used)

1. 'Dada' (3 months)
2. 'Mama' (4 months)
3. 'Kitty' (7 months)
4. 'Doggie' (8 months)
5. 'Baba' -bottle- (8 months)
6. 'uh oh' - when dropping something (or throwing something :)
7. 'No no no no' -when about to do something she knows she's not supposed to do- (9 months)
8. Hot (9 months)
9. 'This?' -what is this?- (10 months)
10. 'That' - i want that- (10 months)
11. 'mooooohh' - Elmo from sesame street (10 months)
12. 'Aeeyyy' - Abby from sesame street (11 months)
13. 'Ert' - Bert from sesame street (11 months)
14. 'Ernie' - from sesame street (1 year)
15. 'Weeee' - thanks to little people playground
16. 'Block' - building blocks
17. 'Fish' - because of a picture book
18. 'Tree' - because of a trip to the park
19. 'Cook' - (13 months)
20. 'Cup'
21. 'look kittie !'
22. 'Bath'
23. 'Kiss'
24. 'ook' - Book (she can't say the letter 'b')
25. 'Ducky' (15 months)
26. 'Coke' - when pointing to my can of soda
27. 'touch that?' - when pointing to the painting in the living room that we lift her up and let her touch.
28. 'No' (while shaking her head no) -when she doesn't want to do something or doesn't like something or is done eating or drinking
29. 'Woo Woo' (poop)
30. 'Yeah' (yes)
31. 'Clock'
32. 'I' (for 'I love you through and through' her favorite book)
33. 'Froggie' (16 months)
34. 'Wow!'
35. 'Giraffe'
36. 'Wash'
37. 'Yucky'
38. 'Horsey'
39. 'Eyes'
40. 'Rock'
41. 'Nice Kitty'
42. 'Mouse'
43. 'Hair'
44. 'Nose'
45. 'Mouth'
46. 'Cookie' 17 months
47. 'Monkey'
48. 'Elephant'
49. 'Kiss'
50. 'Alligator' (thanks to starfall)
51. 'Cheese'
52. 'Hi' (Hiiieeeey! LOL)
53. 'Nice' (gentle - after being told to 'be nice' ie don't hit)
54. 'Oh No!'
55. 'Splash!' (thanks to little people bath bar)
56. 'Dolphin' ("")
57. 'Pocoyo'
58. 'Bye Bye Dada'
59. 'No No No Bad Kitty!'
60. 'Arrrggh' (like a pirate - thanks to backyardigans)
61. 'Blues Clues'
62. 'My Paci!' (Pacifier)
63. 'Cool!'
64. ' A Clue ! A Clue!' (from blues clues -when she saw a blue paw print on the tag for her unicorn)
65.'Good dog woof!' (after Ubu sit at the end of family ties lol)
66. First song with actual words 'Blues cluuuuuues Blues clues'
67. 'Ooooo wow cool!!!' 18 months
68. 'Color?' (when she wants her crayons)
69. 'Chair'
70. 'Turtle' (blues turtle Torqoise)
71. 'A' (the letter)
72. 'Cheek' (learning names of body parts)
73. 'Doll'
74. 'B' (the letter)
75. 'Ball'
76. 'C' (the letter)
77. 'D' (the letter)
78. 'E' (the letter)
79. 'Juice'
80. 'Ooooooh wow!! Look!!!! Look !!!' (while pointing wildly at something she likes)
81. 'five?' (as in gimme five) :)
82. 'wazzzat?' ('what's that?')
83. 'Here ya go' (when handing us something)
84. 'Ostrich' ! (wow! thank you little people a-z zoo)
85. 'what's this?'
86. 'Oscar the grouch' (double wow! playing with her Oscar the grouch doll and she said 'what's this?' lol so i told her and now she knows !)
87. 'Big Horsey'
88. 'Dinasaur!'
89. 'Bye Bye See ya later' (19 months)
90. A reAffirmed Passion for saying the word 'No!' to just about everything.
91. The whole Alphabet !! (i'm not going to list each letter individually lol including their sounds!)
92. 'Blue'
93. 'Stop!'
94. 'Go!'
95. 'Igloo' (thanks to Starfall.com)
96. 'Car'
97. 'Shoes'
98. 'Apple!' (Finally! lol)
99. 'Yes!'
100. 'Thank You.' :) my favorite so far
101. 'Up'
102. 'Down'
103. 'On'
104. 'Off'
105. 'Nasty!' lol
106. 'Yucky'
107. 'Pig'
108. 'Cow'
109. 'Popcorn'
110. 'Girl'
111. 'Yellow'
112. 'Red'
113. 'Pink'
114. 'Green'
115 'Purple'
116. 'Black'
117. 'White'
stopped counting :)